saccharine vs sugarcoated

saccharine

adj
  • Resembling granulated sugar; saccharoid. 

  • Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy. 

  • Of or relating to saccharin (“a white, crystalline powder, C₇H₅NO₃S, used as an artificial sweetener in food products”). 

noun
  • Sentimentalism. 

sugarcoated

adj
  • Coated with sugar. 

  • Made superficially more attractive, possibly to cover up faults. 

How often have the words saccharine and sugarcoated occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )